Am I crazy? Does Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" sound like a song from an old Simon and Garfinkle

[CTyankee]

tune?

Please help! I know very little about modern music and I now have an earworm about this song

[lisa58]

1. Which Simon & Garfunkel song?

I only know so many, but the ones I know ‘I know’

[CTyankee]

2. I don't know! It's just something that came into my head as I was researching another song.

[lisa58]

3. I searched it on YouTube and listened...

Nothing I know, but that doesn’t mean anything

[CTyankee]

5. I thought it might be that the time the Coldplay song came out was right after Simon and Garfuncles

songs were popular...I dunno...

[Leghorn21]

4. Here's the song, for reference

Me, I’m not hearing S&G here, but I’m only familiar with their biggest hits -

[samnsara]

8. i love that song but dont hear any S&G that Im aware of..

[applegrove]

6. 60 Minutes did a story on Chris Martin. There was a controversy about

that song sounding an awful lot like some obscure band's song. It wasn't Simon and Garfunkel. It was some more recent band i've never heard of. Martin said there was no connection. The resemblance was quite strong as i recall.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. It doesn't remind me of any S & G songs I'm familiar with.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

9. That sounded more like U2 to me.(g)

[Phentex]

10. Are you sure it wasn't this song from the Viva La Vida album? Scarborough Fair

sounds like this one: (or this one sounds like Scarborough Fair, lol)

[regnaD kciN]

11. No, but it's a complete lift...

...of the tune from the last section of Cat Stevens’ “Foreigner Suite” (the part that begins with “The moment you walked inside my door...”). And I do mean complete, as in it’s practically note-for-note the same tune.

[CTyankee]

12. Thanks. I don't know the song but I'm not savvy enough to have that large a music base like so

many here have. I'm learning!

[llmart]

13. I don't hear it but...

I got a chuckle out of "Garfinkle".

[CTyankee]

14. I know, I know...It used to be a department store long, long ago...I'm old...

[llmart]

15. Well, then I must be old too because...

I remember Garfinkles Department Store.